| CONTRAPUNTIST | One who writes music in the style of Bach, say |
| SCORER | One who writes music for films |
| COMPOSER | One who writes music |
| MERSEYBEAT | Melodic popular music in the style of The Beatles and other Liverpool groups during the Sixties (10) |
| SILENTNIGHT | Piece of music in the style of 4’33” that follows vespers |
| RETRO | Clothes or music in the style of the recent past (5) |
| PARTITA | Type of musical suite popular in the 18th century, as in the works of Bach; from Italian, 'divided' (7) |
| CHACONNE | Type of dance piece originating in the late 16c, such as the final movement of Bach's Partita no. 2 in D minor for violin (8) |
| SCHIFF | Hungarian-born British concert pianist noted for his interpretations of the music of Bach, Beethoven, Janacek, Schubert and Schumann (6) |
| ACHINGLY | A bit of Bach in G, lyrical in an excruciating way (8) |
| ANGELA | Pianist Hewitt who recorded the complete keyboard works of Bach |
| CHILE | Excerpts of Bach I left in the country (5) |
| NOTATES | How one writes music on state disruption (7) |
| BACHELOR | Opening of Bach chorale is somehow kind of flat |
| COMPOSERS | Commanding Officer has a thousand Roman models of Bach, Handel and the like (9) |
| GSTRING | Air on the ___, Wilhelmj's arrangement of Bach (1,6) |
| PROHIBIT | Whizz over finale of Bach, needing one piece for bar (8) |
| REPROACH | Extra with role in interpretation of "Bach Opera" is faultless - w 9ac (5,8) |
| ABOVE | Extra with role in interpretation of "Bach Opera" is faultless - w 6dn (5,8) |
| JOANNAMACGREGOR | Pianist and conductor born in 1959 noted for her interpretations of Bach (6,9) |
